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These are the real ‘greatest witch hunts’ in political history

American politician Joseph McCarthy in 1954. Getty Images

It. Just. Didn’t. Stop.

There was a bombshell political crisis coming from the White House nearly every day this week. President Trump reportedly asked James Comey to pledge his loyalty over dinner. Trump casually told Russian officials highly classified information passed along by Israel. Comey wrote a detailed memo about a Trump meeting during which the president asked him to drop an investigation into his former national security adviser.

By Wednesday evening, the Department of Justice had hired a special counsel to investigate potential ties between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia.

So it was perhaps not surprising on Thursday morning, when Trump tweeted, “This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!”

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